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Artist Zhang Peili. Zhang Peili (born 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Considered the father of video art in China he works mainly with installation and video.
Zhang Peili (simplified Chinese: 张培莉; traditional Chinese: 張培莉; pinyin: Zhāng Péilì; born 1941), or Zhang Beili (simplified Chinese: 张蓓莉; traditional Chinese: 張蓓莉; pinyin: Zhāng Bèilì), is a Chinese geologist and the wife of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
Zhang Peili Biography. Credited by some as the father of video art in China, Zhang Peili also works with digital media, as well as painting, sculpture, and installation, often exploring image construction in the media and our perceptions of reality.
Zhang Peili was born in Hangzhou in 1957, earning his BA in 1984 from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, now the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Acknowledged as a pioneer of video art in China, Zhang’s influence has been profound, although his conceptual practice has never been confined to a single medium.
ARTIST ZHANG PEILI has spent his thirty-year career willfully evading categorization. “I’m not a person who sticks to rules,” he noted in a 2011 interview. And as the diversity of his body of work suggests, he has never followed the unwritten rule that the successful artist must develop a recognizable style.
Zhang Peili is a central figure in Chinese contemporary art: he was the first artist to work in video in China. His clean, incisive video works, infused with sharp social and political commentaries, have made him a pioneer in video art internationally.
Zhang lives and works in Hangzhou. Works by Zhang Peili include Painting, Installation, Archival Documentation, Video Installation, Video, Photography and Work on Paper. There are 13 objects by Zhang Peili from the M+ Collection and the M+ Sigg Collection available online.
